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Boston's Unions, Contractors and Health Care Experts Band Together to Fight COVID-19

ENR Construction

Trade union leaders, construction executives and international health care experts are teaming up in Boston in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the city’s booming construction sector and beyond.

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Making jobsites safer in the COVID-19 world

BD+C

Boston-based Shawmut Design and Construction, in collaboration with trade unions, industry peer groups, and other firms, has rolled out a COVID-19 safety plan for its project sites across the country.

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Construction Work Picks Up in Eastern Massachusetts

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Construction crews recently broke ground on four major projects in the Boston area, including a $2 billion revamp of Somerville’s Union Square.

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Labor Sec. Walsh Says He Will Leave Post in March

ENR Construction

Walsh, formerly an official with the building trades unions and mayor of Boston, will leave his federal post in mid-March to become executive director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association. Labor Secretary Martin J.

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How to Avoid a Commercial Construction Scandal

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Pursuing those jobs meant we would have had to use shoddy subcontractors or non-union labor where union labor would have been best. And if you’re not in a union town, like Miami, then align yourself with the best vendors. And yet, when we work in union markets like Chicago, Boston, New York and St.

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Boston Construction Bands With Health Care to Fight COVID-19

ENR Construction

Union leaders, industry executives and international experts team to stop virus spread in city's booming construction sector.

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Meet Canvas, the Drywall Finishing Robot Offering Level 5 Quality

Construction Junkie

The crews that Canvas employs to work with the machine are also union workers. The team of founders is made up of some pretty serious technology folks who came from previous roles at Boston Dynamics, MIT, and Stanford. We're excited that our partnership with Canvas has developed in the manner it has.